Lives of Freda : the political, spiritual and personal journeys of Freda Bedi / Andrew Whitehead.

By:

Whitehead, Andrew (Journalist) [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi : Speaking Tiger, 2019Description: xvi, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cmISBN:

9789388070751
9388070755

Other title:

The lives of Freda

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DDC classification:

294.3923092 WHI

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Also available as an e-book.

Contents:

Tibetan Buddhist terms -- Prologue : putting on the robes -- The Suicide Club -- The gates of the world -- Everything that was good in us -- Your people shall be my people -- The huts beyond model town -- A martyr awaiting execution -- Behind the mud walls -- From a woman's window -- Bengal lamenting -- Kashmir in disguise -- A new world -- Buddha and Baba -- Brave and wonderful people -- The Young Lamas' Home School -- A nun's life -- Seeding the west -- Sister and mother -- Postscript.

Summary: From the moment she married a handsome young Sikh at a registry office in Oxford in 1933, Freda Bedi, nee Houlston, regarded herself as Indian, even though it was another year before she set foot in the country. She was English by birth and upbringing - and Indian by marriage, cultural affinity and political loyalty. Later, she travelled the world as a revered Buddhist teacher, but India would remain her home to the end.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	294.3923092 WHI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K5222

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-345) and index.

From the moment she married a handsome young Sikh at a registry office in Oxford in 1933, Freda Bedi, nee Houlston, regarded herself as Indian, even though it was another year before she set foot in the country. She was English by birth and upbringing - and Indian by marriage, cultural affinity and political loyalty. Later, she travelled the world as a revered Buddhist teacher, but India would remain her home to the end.

Also available as an e-book.

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